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cent. The severe cold of spring injnred seed-cane in some counties, 

 leaving- the most of the crop to be made from stubble-cane. 



Geop.gia. — MUchell : Seed-caue largely destroyed by severe cold. 



Floiuda. — Madison : Improved by late rains. Manatee : Good season. Wakulla : 

 Cold suap killed the eyes of nearly all the sugar-cane ; the jiresent crop mostlj' from 

 stubble. Gadsden : Increased attention to this crop. 



Alabama. — Grenshaw : Not over half a cro](, for want of seed-cane to plant. Coving- 

 ion : Decreased acreage ; cane put up for seed in the fall was injured. 



Mississippi. — Xcshoba : Injured by cold. 



Tex.\s. — liuslc : Plaut-caue growing finely ; stubble-cane liattering. Polk : All right 

 up to date. 



SOEGHUM. 



In South Carolina and Tennessee the acreage remains the same as 

 last year. It is increased in Georgia 11 per cent. ; Alabama, 3 ; Mis- 

 sissippi, 20; Texas, 9; Arkansas, 30; Minnesota, 31; Kansas, 10; 

 Nebraska, 6. In all the other States in which sorghum is grown the 

 acreage has declined. The greatest decrease is in Wisconsin, 19 -pev 

 cent. In other States the range of decrease is from 3 to 11 per cent. 



Mississippi, 108, Kansas, 102, and Arkansas, 101, are the only States 

 in which the condition is above average. In Pennsylvania and South 

 Carolina it is average ; in other States it ranges from 82 to 98. * 



FRUIT. 



Fruit-crops suffered from numerous casualties. Late frosts and severe 

 winter freezes were especially destructive, not only to fruit, but also to 

 trees. A very general recurrence of severe winter temperature about the 

 middle of April is noted in our reports, yet the injury inflicted has not 

 been found to be so permanent as was at first sui^posed. Insects 

 destructive of fruit were quite various in entomological character, but 

 their ravages have not been very serious in the aggregate. 



ArPLES. — xipples are below average in all the States except Yer- 

 mont, 102, Florida, 100, Texas, 101. The lowest average was in Indiana, 

 31. The New England States vary from 102, in Vermont, to 56, in Con- 

 necticut. The Middle States range low, from 71, in New York, to 61, in 

 New Jersey. In the South Atlantic States, except Maryland, 90, the 

 the average is still lower, ranging from 50, in Yirgiuia, to 77, in Georgia. 

 The Gulf States, except Florida and Texas, range from 73, in Alabama, 

 to 99, in Mississippi. In the inland Southern States, Arkansas, 98, is 

 almost average. Some counties report fruit as appearing fair, but tend- 

 ing to early rot. In the other States of this region the crop is very 

 poor — Tennessee, 46 ; West Yirgihia, 33 ; Kentucky, 50. North of the 

 Ohio River the condition is still worse — Ohio averages but 33 ; Michi- 

 gan, 64 ; Indiana, 31 ; Illinois, 38 ; Wisconsin, 48. West of the Missis- 

 sippi the State averages are higher — Minnesota, 89 ; Iowa, 77 ; Missouri, 

 74 ; Kansas, 50 ; Nebraska, 61. The Pacific coast is about three-quar- 

 ters of an average. 



Peaches. — The peach-crop suffered still more severely than apples 

 from the freezes of winter and frosts of spring. The highest average 

 condition is found in the North Atlantic States and in the Gulf States. 

 The maximum is in Mississippi, 113, and the minimum in Ohio, 17. Of 

 the New England States, New Hampshire falls 6 per cent, below aver- 

 age, but the other States are full average or above. Of the Middle 

 States, New Jersey and Delaware, on the coast, are nearly or quite full 

 average, while the inland regions of New York fall 25 per cent., and 

 those of Pennsylvania 39 per cent. In Sussex, Delaware, Hale's Early 



